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Book Review, © Copyright 1997, Jim Loy
Did you know that Napoleon was murdered, while he was imprisoned on the island of St. Helena? The authors report the case, as made by Dr. Sten Forshufvud, that Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. Napoleon showed symptoms of chronic arsenic poisoning. And relatively large quantities of arsenic have been found in locks of his hair. One of the authors' sources is an article, Arsenic Content Of Napoleon I's Hair Probably Taken Immediately After His Death, by Forshufvud, Smith, and Wassen, in Nature magazine, October 14, 1961.
A problem, with claiming that this is a murder, is that Napoleon's final death agony was nothing like arsenic poisoning. The authors argue, rather convincingly, that Napoleon was made ill by arsenic poisoning, and then was finished off with a clever trick of mercury poisoning.
And the authors name a fairly likely suspect as the murderer. I won't tell you who did it. Read this interesting book, and find out.
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